Blogger has released new fonts to everyone, not just for folks using Draft Blogger, and added yet more fonts. I can't wait to play with the new toys. You can access them via the newish template designer and some look rather nice.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Get Glue
I'm trying GetGlue. I have no idea why I'd want to keep using this. It suggests things I either don't care about or already have on my list to read/view/do. Beyond that, it seems rather tedious to click everything to get started, and things I want to rate don't show up. I don't see a search function. I realize that by not joining it with either Twitter (for now) or Facebook, I'm missing out on functionality, but I already see on Facebook what my friends like because they link to things or post about them. Or they tell me in real life, which is even better. And since my friends and I don't have the same taste, I take all suggestions with a grain of salt.
So, does anyone use this? Do you like it? Why? And if you don't, why not?
I'm NYCShelly on GetGlue, if you're inclined to check out my suggestions.
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So, does anyone use this? Do you like it? Why? And if you don't, why not?
I'm NYCShelly on GetGlue, if you're inclined to check out my suggestions.
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Saturday, January 08, 2011
The Shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
I mostly use this blog to offer my thoughts about online activities, social media, websites, and blogging, and sometimes, about issues that matter to me: censorship, equal rights, equal access, that sort of thing. And sometimes, the news brings something that begs me to post. Today is such a day. The shooting of Rep. Giffords at a meeting with her constituents in a store in Arizona is shocking, horrific, and scary, as well as sad. It's an attack that makes me feel ashamed to be an American. And I can't help but wonder if we'll ever get past this sort of thing.
True, we still don't know much about the motives of the shooter, but he took innocent lives today. He attacked someone serving this country, opening fire in a group that included average citizens: men, women, and children who wanted nothing more than to meet and talk with their elected representative.
A lot is being said about Sarah Palin on Facebook and elsewhere regarding her culpability in fostering an atmosphere of violence as a solution to disagreements. A map on her website, now taken down apparently, showed 20 representatives she and her party think should be removed for voting for the health care bill, a law that has brought health care to millions of uninsured, and that is merely one step in reforming a system that is full of inequities and inefficiencies. Sure, you can say the gunsights on the map are merely symbolic, but when it's accompanied by inflammatory rhetoric and comes from a public figure, it's given weight it would not have in a vacuum.
For the record, I'm against any kind of extremism, radicalism, or violence as a solution to anything outside of the need to repel a physical attack / act of war. Much as I abhor war, I do believe they can at times be the only way to stop an opposing force. But that is not the case when individuals take the law into their own hands or think they're above the law. Whether today's shooter (and any accomplices he might have had) was thinking clearly or is mentally unstable remains to be seen, but he sought out a public figure to attack, in a public place, and coincidence or not, that public figure was targeted by Sarah Palin.
This is a sad day in America.
Any comments are welcome, provided they maintain a level of civility. I will delete any that are offensive, insulting, profane, or otherwise inflammatory on any side of the issue.
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True, we still don't know much about the motives of the shooter, but he took innocent lives today. He attacked someone serving this country, opening fire in a group that included average citizens: men, women, and children who wanted nothing more than to meet and talk with their elected representative.
A lot is being said about Sarah Palin on Facebook and elsewhere regarding her culpability in fostering an atmosphere of violence as a solution to disagreements. A map on her website, now taken down apparently, showed 20 representatives she and her party think should be removed for voting for the health care bill, a law that has brought health care to millions of uninsured, and that is merely one step in reforming a system that is full of inequities and inefficiencies. Sure, you can say the gunsights on the map are merely symbolic, but when it's accompanied by inflammatory rhetoric and comes from a public figure, it's given weight it would not have in a vacuum.
For the record, I'm against any kind of extremism, radicalism, or violence as a solution to anything outside of the need to repel a physical attack / act of war. Much as I abhor war, I do believe they can at times be the only way to stop an opposing force. But that is not the case when individuals take the law into their own hands or think they're above the law. Whether today's shooter (and any accomplices he might have had) was thinking clearly or is mentally unstable remains to be seen, but he sought out a public figure to attack, in a public place, and coincidence or not, that public figure was targeted by Sarah Palin.
This is a sad day in America.
Any comments are welcome, provided they maintain a level of civility. I will delete any that are offensive, insulting, profane, or otherwise inflammatory on any side of the issue.
~~~o0o~~~
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